The problem may have been that I had heard the jokes already from the radio version. Where your imagination filled in the effects. And I’m definitely not saying the 2005 version was good.
I don’t remember if I read the books before or after the TV version.
I don’t much care for cheesy effect Dr. Who either, so that might be a problem.
Supercar is the only Gerry Anderson puppet show I watched, due to scheduling, I think. Except for Space 1999 with its live action puppets.
Are you suggesting Martin Landau and Barbara Bain were wooden? 
Please, Sir!
Thank you! 
I thought you called it vaudeville.
Like Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward and Doctor Venus, she was probably modelled after Sylvia Anderson.
I like the high-production miniseries that crop up now and then, like The Hollow Crown, The Night Manager, The Serpent, and even Kenneth Branagh’s Wallander (not as good as the original, but interesting). I don’t know how many of those reach the US.
Nope. Brigitte Bardot!
After watching the original, I couldn’t stomach Branagh’s version.
Makes sense. Bardot was never one for great speeches.
I loved it! Somehow I missed the final post-war season and only watched it a few years ago. Ellie Haddington, who typically plays such juicy bad-guy roles, was such a hero in the final episode.
Loved this movie! And I Know Where I’m Going – I think of them as kind of a matched set. Does that HUGE whirlpool actually exist?
No, neither American vaudeville nor American burlesque is really equivalent to British music hall. Apart from productions of The Entertainer and those early episodes of Upstairs Downstairs in which Pauline Collins’ character went on the stage, most Americans have never been exposed to music hall. (In fact, when those episodes first aired in the States, they were accompanied by little 10-minute documentaries giving examples of music-hall numbers. Oh! and I forgot—there are the opening minutes of Evergreen in which Jessie Matthews does “Daddy wouldn’t buy me a bow-wow”.) My wife knows a bit more than most of us, as her classical-theatre professor at university, a native of Glastonbury, used to do a one-man act that he called “The Cheerio Show”, so that she can rattle off “Oh! mister porter!”, “There I was, waiting at the church”, and “If you want to know the time, ask a policeman” like anything.
Yes, the Corryvreckan Whirlpool is quite real, and the strategems and devices used to get it on camera were non-trivial.
Now that I’d like to see.
On no it isn’t!
I was too young to watch Upstairs, Downstairs when it first aired, but I vaguely remember seeing Alastair Cooke introduce the UK shows. In part, he was there to translate the weird customs and words for the Americans. Later, they had other people doing the same thing. (Sometimes it was more necessary than others, like that whole thing about the entail in Downton Abbey.)
Yes
I watched a few episodes of New Tricks, at least it was on in the background. It seemed alright, and i was pleased to see Amanda Redman, who I know from Good Karma Hospital.